Kate Newby (born 1979) is an artist from New Zealand.^[1]

Newby was born in 1979 in the Auckland region of New Zealand.^[2] She attended the Elam School of Fine Arts, receiving a BFA in 2001, an MFA in 2007, and a PhD in 2015.^[3] The title of her doctoral thesis was Casualness: it's not about what it looks like it's about what it does.^[4]

Newby is a mixed materials installation artist.^[5] She creates her installations based on their site and setting, often disused urban environments.^[6] Using commonplace materials such as pebbles, nails, and rope, her work explores the details of everyday life.^[7]

Newby was a member of the Auckland artist space Gambia Castle.^[8]

2008

• Show me, don’t tell me (group show), Brussels Biennial 1, Brussels^[9]
• Thinking with your body, Gambia Castle, Auckland^[10]
• Academy (with Ryan Moore), TCB, Melbourne^[11]
• Many directions, as much as possible, all over the country, 1301 PE, Los Angeles^[10]

2011

• I'll follow you down the road, Hopkinson Mossman, Auckland^[12]
• I'm just like a pile of leaves, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Auckland^[13]

2013

• Let the Other Thing In, Fogo Island Gallery, Fogo Island^[14]
• Maybe I won’t go to sleep at all, La Loge, Brussels^[7]

2014

• Portmanteaux (with Nick Austin, Bill Culbert, Pup Culbert, Mateo Tannatt), Hopkinson Mossman, Auckland^[15]

2015

• Lunch Poems (with Joanna Margaret Paul), Hopkinson Mossman, Auckland^[16]
• 2016
• Big Tree. Bird’s Eye, Michael Lett, Auckland^[17]

2016

• Every day I make my way (with Talia Chetrit, Moyra Davey, Barbara Kasten), Minerva, Sydney

2017

• Let me be the wind that pulls your hair, curated by Michelle Grabner, Artpace, San Antonio

2018

• Nothing that's over so soon should give you that much strength, curated by Mathijs van Geest, Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen
• A puzzling light and moving. (Part I), lumber room, Portland, OR^[18]
• Nothing that's over so soon should give you that much strength, curated by Mathijs van Geest, Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen
• can't nail the days down, curated by Juliane Bischoff, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna ^[19]

2019

• Wild was the night, Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, France
• A puzzling light and moving. (Part II and Part III), lumber room, Portland, OR
• Bring Everyone, Fine Arts, Sydney, Sydney

2020

• As far as you can, Feuilleton, Los Angeles^[20]

2021

• Cold Water, Fine Arts Sydney, Sydney, Australia^[21]
• YES TOMORROW, Adam Art Gallery, Te Pātaka Toi, Wellington, New Zealand^[22][23]
• The Flames: The Living Arts of Ceramics (group show) Musée d’art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France^[24]

2022

• Kate Newby: She's Talking to the Wall, Museum of New Zealand^[25]
• Kate Newby: So Close, come on, The Sunday Painter, London, UK^[26]
• We are such stuff, Laurel Gitlen, New York, USA^[27]
• Try doing anything without it, Art : Concept, Paris, France
• Feel noise, Testsite, curated by Makenzie Stevens, Austin, US
• Reclaim the Earth, Palais de Tokyo (group show), Paris, France^[28]

2023

• miles off road, Fine Arts Sydney, Sydney, Australia^[29]
• Had us running with you, Michael Lett, Auckland, New Zealand^[30]
• Our Ecology: Toward a Planetary Living (group show) Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan^[31]

2024

• Hours in wind, Loti Smorgon Sculpture Terrace Commission at Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, Australia^[32]

Artist files for Kate Newby are held at:

• Angela Morton Collection, Takapuna Library [1]
• Te Aka Matua Research Library, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa [2]
• Fine Arts Library | Te Herenga Toi The University of Auckland Libraries and Learning Services [3]
• E. H. McCormick Research Library, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki [4]

• Official website